Re: unable to run gsynaptics on lenny

2010-10-21 Thread vishnu vardhan
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, vishnu vardhan < vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > i have read the readme. however, there is no .xsession or .xinitrc file on > my system. right now i am using debian 5.0.4 and fluxbox on an encrypted > lvm. i could not figure out about how to create xsessio

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-21 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > That sounds more like it is swapping now when before it was not.  Is > there now a process running that is consuming more memory?  What does > 'cat /proc/meminfo' say about memory usage?  (Although I have gotten > lazy and rely much upon 'htop

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-21 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > as it was instantenous earlier. > > That sounds more like it is swapping now when before it was not.  Is > there now a process running that is consuming more memory?  What does > 'cat /proc/meminfo' say about memory usage?  (Although I have gott

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-21 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: >  But I'm curious if anyone on the list knows the rationale for > distributing kernels with this set to 32.  Is that just a > reasonable number that's never been updated?  Or is there some > complication that arises after 32 cores, and should I

Best way to manually replace a package with a customized one

2010-10-21 Thread Yahya Mohammad
Hi list, I want to use a custom compiled version of ffmpeg to enable some extra features. What is the best way to do this? I do not want to break anything that depends on ffmpeg. I tried making my own .deb package using checkinstall. This works fine, but whenever I run apt-get upgrade it wants to

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 10:11 PM, post id wrote: --- On Fri, 10/22/10, David Jardine wrote: --- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine wrote: [snip] My setup is a seven-year-old laptop, with Lenny and Fluxbox and Icewm. The laptop has a cd/cdrw/dvd drive, a 40GB hard drive, wifi and ethernet. Most-used

Re: dpkg issue

2010-10-21 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/21/2010 10:36 PM, Mark A. wrote: > I have an error in dpkg where whenever I try to install a package, it gives > me this error: > > dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 11991 package > 'vinagre': `Depends' field, ref

Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player

2010-10-21 Thread Bob
On 10/22/2010 03:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bob wrote: On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution.

dpkg issue

2010-10-21 Thread Mark
I have an error in dpkg where whenever I try to install a package, it gives me this error: dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 11991 package 'vinagre': `Depends' field, reference to `libvte9': version contains ` ' I can't figure out how to fix this. Any help would be n

dpkg issue

2010-10-21 Thread Mark A.
I have an error in dpkg where whenever I try to install a package, it gives me this error: dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 11991 package 'vinagre': `Depends' field, reference to `libvte9': version contains ` ' I can't figure out how to fix this. Any help would be n

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 21 October 2010 15:48:22 lee wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 06:44:50PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:21:43 +0200, lee wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:22:33AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:03:23 +0200, lee wrote: > > >> > is there fina

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread post id
--- On Fri, 10/22/10, David Jardine wrote: > From: David Jardine > Subject: Re: text-only login is root? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: pos...@att.net > Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 1:42 AM > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:26:38PM > -0700, post id wrote: > > > > > > --- On Thu, 10/2

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/21/10 14:49, post id wrote: when I do ctrl-alt-f1 I get a list of messages such as "Restore TV PLL," etc. rather than a command prompt. I don't get that on my other machines running graphical login managers. Use: startx & which will open the X session in the background. Then yo

Re: report

2010-10-21 Thread Blocked By Earthlink
Thank you for writing blockedbyearthl...@abuse.earthlink.net. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE EMAIL TO RESOLVE YOUR ISSUE This email address is only for issues where EarthLink appears to be blocking an email server and an email is returned with one of the following error messages: "550 Dynamic/zombied/sp

Slow DVD burning

2010-10-21 Thread Frank
I am running an updated Sid, and noticed tonight that DVD data disk burning using Brasero has slowed down. I have a Sony drive which is capable of writing at speeds around 30x...but the last DVD data disk I burned showed write speeds of 0.8 to 1.6x. Am I alone on this or is it a common problem o

Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-21 Thread Andrew Reid
Hi all -- I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where the stock Debian kernel is compiled with CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32, meaning it will only use the first 32 cores that it sees. For old Debian hands like me, thi

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:26:38PM -0700, post id wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine wrote: > > [...] > I can't find a setting with this web mail > that affects line length. I'll do manual carriage returns until > I find a solution. > Isn't that a good enough s

netboot/xen/initrd.gz

2010-10-21 Thread George Shuklin
Good day. How debian-installer's initrd created? Is anywhere instruction how to make your own? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1287709448.3

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread post id
--- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine wrote: > From: David Jardine > Subject: Re: text-only login is root? > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: pos...@att.net > Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 10:45 PM > Could you please wrap your lines (70 > or so characters per line)?  It > makes it eas

Re: Sata 3

2010-10-21 Thread GeraldCC
On Thursday, October 21, 2010 06:29:35 pm Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:56:19 +1000, GeraldCC wrote: > > (...) > > > It does seem to me, at least, the kernel does not really support Sata 3 > > out of the boxes. This is a new box, and I have just upgraded it to all > > Sata 3 drives. Wh

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread post id
--- On Thu, 10/21/10, Ron Johnson wrote: > From: Ron Johnson > Subject: Re: text-only login is root? > To: "post id" > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 10:43 PM > On 10/21/2010 04:49 PM, post id > wrote: > > I've set up a minimal system on one of my machine

ssh-add problem

2010-10-21 Thread john
The following output describes my problem: rich...@debian:~/Desktop$ ssh-add -c ~/.ssh/id_rsa Enter passphrase for /home/richard/.ssh/id_rsa: Bad passphrase, try again for /home/richard/.ssh/id_rsa: What am I doing wrong? I get similar response if I use ssh-keygen. I am running squeeze (updat

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread lee
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:04:35PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > > > It was promised years ago for KDE 4.x to be able to finally put the > > scroll bar on the left ... > > There is even an old bug report for that matter: > > *** > scrollbars on left > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4549 > *

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:10:27 -0400 Wayne Topa wrote: > On 10/20/2010 06:25 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: ... > > [u]rxvt is the only app I've seen where the scrollbar is on the left. > > > > Konsole lets you put the scrollbar on either side. As does Xfce Terminal. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net

Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player

2010-10-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:49:00 +0800 Bob wrote: > On 09/06/2010 03:13 AM, Celejar wrote: > > I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash > > players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any > > really general solution. Some Flash video players sav

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread lee
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: > On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: > > On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when > > you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the > > text moving up together with the scroll bar? > > S

Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

2010-10-21 Thread Pinguim.Ribeiro
On 22-10-2010 00:20, lee wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 08:25:03PM +, Pinguim.ribeiro wrote: I mean the popularity-contest depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent, packages to be installed later and not by the debian installer. You would select to install exim4-daemon-heavy anyway, along wi

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread lee
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:34:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/21/2010 03:48 PM, lee wrote: > [snip] > > > >On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when > >you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the > >text moving up together with the scroll

Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

2010-10-21 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 08:25:03PM +, Pinguim.ribeiro wrote: > > I mean the popularity-contest depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent, > packages to be installed later and not by the debian installer. You would select to install exim4-daemon-heavy anyway, along with clamav and spamassassin.

Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

2010-10-21 Thread lee
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:24:18AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > In any case, you should definitely have your firewall on a separate machine, > bare metal if possible. I also recommend your backup machine be on a > separate bare metal machine. That said, you can probably combine your > various web s

Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

2010-10-21 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:50:04PM +, Pinguim.ribeiro wrote: > lee yun.yagibdah.de> writes: > > My envision for this tutorial is a guy like me, a bit curious and very > enthusiast about Linux, but not an expert at all ;-) This guy and his > wife both have a desktop PC, a laptop, a few email a

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread David Jardine
Could you please wrap your lines (70 or so characters per line)? It makes it easier to read and to reply to. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 02:49:03PM -0700, post id wrote: > I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login > manager -- I login at the prompt and type startx to sta

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 04:49 PM, post id wrote: I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login manager -- I login at the prompt and type startx to start the graphical session. Now I read a claim that if one didn't use a login manager to log in and start X, then one was logging in wi

text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread post id
I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login manager -- I login at the prompt and type startx to start the graphical session. Now I read a claim that if one didn't use a login manager to log in and start X, then one  was logging in with root privileges. That doesn't appea

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:48:22 +0200, lee wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 06:44:50PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> You mean in the whole KDE environment or just in some apps? >> > >> > everywhere >> >> Ugh... then dunno. > > It was promised years ago for KDE 4.x to be able to finally put the > s

s/2mm/2cm (was Re: scrollbar on left side)

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 04:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/21/2010 03:48 PM, lee wrote: [snip] On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the text moving up together with the scroll bar? Take a piece of construc

I can't get the Linux kernel RDS exploit to exploit my machine...

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
I installed my kernel back on 01-Oct, so it should be vulnerable, but it's not, even when I modprobed the rds modules. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/linux-kernel-vulnerability-coughs-up-superuser-rights/7509 $ apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Inst

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: > On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when > you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the > text moving up together with the scroll bar? Seriously? It indicates the position in the document, and so it behaves. >

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 03:48 PM, lee wrote: [snip] On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the text moving up together with the scroll bar? Take a piece of construction paper and cut a 2mm slit in it. Now op

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 06:44:50PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:21:43 +0200, lee wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:22:33AM +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:03:23 +0200, lee wrote: > >> > >> > is there finally a way to get the scrollbar on the left side r

Re: Remote Assistance Software

2010-10-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:55:44 -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote: > Is there an open source remote assistance server software similar to go > meeting? If yes, is there one you could recommend? Wikipedia has a big comparison chart :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_conferencing_software

Re: CPU synthetic benchmark

2010-10-21 Thread Doug
On 10/21/2010 3:46 PM, Martin Spinassi wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/2010 01:52 PM, Martin Spinassi wrote: Hi list! I'm searching for some good CPU synthetic test. I've found a few, but their last update where from ~1996, and don't know if they are the r

Remote Assistance Software

2010-10-21 Thread Roman Gelfand
Is there an open source remote assistance server software similar to go meeting? If yes, is there one you could recommend? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: CPU synthetic benchmark

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Spinassi
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/2010 01:52 PM, Martin Spinassi wrote: > > Hi list! > > > > I'm searching for some good CPU synthetic test. I've found a few, but > > their last update where from ~1996, and don't know if they are the right > > tools to test modern CPU

Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

2010-10-21 Thread Pinguim . ribeiro
B. Alexander gmail.com> writes: > > > Another couple of items that I came up with, to follow up to Lee's post. You might want to discuss having bastion hosts, such that each server performs a function. The most obvious (though probably out-of-scope for a home server) would be that it would be a

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4cc060b6.9060...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >[snip] > >> BTW, a kill -9 ... the application is allowed to do it's own cleanup; > >Are you sure? SIGKILL is the unignorable "die *now*". Sorry, there is a missing "not" there. My point was

Re: XFS and Power Failures

2010-10-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > XFS is the not only file system where power failure can result in a > truncated file. Even ext3 can have that issue, though it is less > likely. > > However, if the application follows a certain procedure when > re-writing files, it will not

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 10:37 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu October 21 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Just as an IMAP server centralizes email for network access, an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) database on your desktop machine would store all your contacts. so, I could use that instead of

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] BTW, a kill -9 ... the application is allowed to do it's own cleanup; Are you sure? SIGKILL is the unignorable "die *now*". Or are you confusing it with "kill -TERM", which *does* allow cleanup? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To U

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu October 21 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > Just as an IMAP server centralizes email for network access, an LDAP > (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) database on your desktop > machine would store all your contacts. so, I could use that instead of having separate contact lists ( and keeping

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87fwvzuaec@alamut.ozu.edu.tr>, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: >> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: >>> What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the >>> plug? Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible

Re: s2ram

2010-10-21 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:54:13AM +0200, roberto wrote: > hello, i usually switch to standby mode using: > s2ram -f -p -m > > > sometimes, it happens the laptop switches on correctly but the screen > stays blank and the keyboard irresponsive: > i could not figure out the issue but i'd like to kn

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 07:01 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed October 20 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: If you can get LDAP fully functional (no mean feat for a hobbyist) on your desktop then *maybe* KMail and Kontact on your laptop can see the data on your main machine. I don't use kmail on my laptop, I us

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Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

2010-10-21 Thread B. Alexander
Another couple of items that I came up with, to follow up to Lee's post. You might want to discuss having bastion hosts, such that each server performs a function. The most obvious (though probably out-of-scope for a home server) would be that it would be a Bad Idea to put a public anonymous ftp se

Help for adding a new language in Debian web pages (was: ayuda)

2010-10-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:37:41 -0300, KSE ltar wrote: > how to can i do a new web language translation como agregar una nueva > traduccion de idioma de la web > > guarani avane'e (iso 639-2 grn) I would ask in Debian "www" mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/ Greetings, -- Camaleó

LaTeX, Texlive-luatex, Biber installation procedure

2010-10-21 Thread brownh
I am about to install LaTeX on debian squeeze, and I'm drawn to luatex and biber. Much has changed over the years, and an effort to be clear about installation procedure has left some issues unclear. Am I correct to assume that if I install texlive, texlive-luatex, and CTAN biber in that order, I

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-21 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
For KDE I don't know. For other applications like xterm or rxvt it can be customized with X-settings, e.g., in ~/.Xdefaults XTerm*scrollBar:True XTerm*rightScrollBar: True XTerm*scrollBar_right: True URxvt*scrollBar:True URxvt*scrollBar_right:

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed October 20 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: > If you can get LDAP fully functional (no mean feat for a hobbyist) > on your desktop then *maybe* KMail and Kontact on your laptop can > see the data on your main machine. I don't use kmail on my laptop, I use thunderbird. I get to my desktop from my l

ayuda

2010-10-21 Thread KSE ltar
how to can i do a new web language translation como agregar una nueva traduccion de idioma de la web guarani avane'e (iso 639-2 grn) KSEltar deshn.co.cc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: XFS and Power Failures

2010-10-21 Thread godo
do you have ~/.opera/bookmarks.adr and if yes is it empty? Yes, and yes, it is empty. Regards. Sorry I hoped that maybe Opera can open it but that bookmarks are still here. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414

Re: XFS and Power Failures

2010-10-21 Thread godo
do you have ~/.opera/bookmarks.adr and if yes is it empty? Yes, and yes, it is empty. Regards. Sorry I hoped that maybe Opera can open it but that bookmarks are still here. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414

Re: XFS and Power Failures

2010-10-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, godo writes: > On 10/21/2010 12:04 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: >> Another scenario, same failure. I have a squeeze installed notebook and >> having troubles with X. It crashes for some driver specific reasons and >> I need to hard-reset the notebook. 1-2 times I found WindowMaker

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread godo
On 10/21/2010 12:04 PM, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the filesystem

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Re: s2ram

2010-10-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:54:13 +0200, roberto wrote: > hello, i usually switch to standby mode using: s2ram -f -p -m > > > sometimes, it happens the laptop switches on correctly but the screen > stays blank and the keyboard irresponsive: i could not figure out the > issue but i'd like to know if t

XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner writes: >> What write operations were you performing at the time you pulled the plug? >> Unless you were writing the superblock it'd be almost impossible to hose the >> filesystem to the point it couldn't mount. Were

s2ram

2010-10-21 Thread roberto
hello, i usually switch to standby mode using: s2ram -f -p -m sometimes, it happens the laptop switches on correctly but the screen stays blank and the keyboard irresponsive: i could not figure out the issue but i'd like to know if there is anyway to bypass the forced shutdown i have to do afterw

Re: Sata 3

2010-10-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:56:19 +1000, GeraldCC wrote: (...) > It does seem to me, at least, the kernel does not really support Sata 3 > out of the boxes. This is a new box, and I have just upgraded it to all > Sata 3 drives. When it only had 1 Sata 3 drive and 2 Sata 2 drives it > ran all Linuxes w

Re: mail-only user accounts

2010-10-21 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
On 2010-10-21 09:54, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/21/2010 02:35 AM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> What are the best practices for restricting user accounts to e-mail + >> passwd only? >> >> Is allowing SSH access and setting user shell to passwd the way to go? >> > > If the machine will just be an e

Re: Sata 3

2010-10-21 Thread Berni Elbourn
GeraldCC wrote: Debian (All flavours) just does not run properly. By that I mean the system just behaves oddly. Some things do not work and rebooting also gives "X" problems. Something here to suggest latest kernels needed ... http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/6/15/4583184

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Siju George put forth on 10/20/2010 7:20 AM: > Thanks for your replies Bob, Stan and Karl :-) > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> You just installed Squeeze on this system 4 days ago. > no Ok, let me rephrase. At the time I typed that, you had replaced your Linux kern

Re: mail-only user accounts

2010-10-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 02:54:30 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/21/2010 02:35 AM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: >> What are the best practices for restricting user accounts to e-mail + >> passwd only? >> >> Is allowing SSH access and setting user shell to passwd the way to go? >> >> > If the machine w

Re: mail-only user accounts

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 02:35 AM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: What are the best practices for restricting user accounts to e-mail + passwd only? Is allowing SSH access and setting user shell to passwd the way to go? If the machine will just be an email server, I'd look into virtual accounts. http://w

Re: dovecot security

2010-10-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:49:16 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 01:05:08PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> Check Dovecot's log files. What error are you getting? :-? >> > dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (0 authentication attempts): > > And then it shows the IP address of my server a

mail-only user accounts

2010-10-21 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
What are the best practices for restricting user accounts to e-mail + passwd only? Is allowing SSH access and setting user shell to passwd the way to go? Thanks! -- http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/ OpenPGP: DFD9 0146 3794 9CF6 17EA D63F DBF5 8AA8 3B31 FE8A Like hardship, risk & challenge? -